Interview: USNPS Director Jonathan B. Jarvis

Summer’s in full swing, and unless your family is rather Romney-esque, there’s a chance you’ll be spending some time in one of the country’s hundreds of national parks.

Which makes it a good time to chat with Jonathan Jarvis, the head of the National Park Service. The Park Service oversees about 84 million acres of land, from Alaska to the Virgin Islands.

The former ranger tells the Loop about his secret talents (the man knows his way around a dovetail joint) and how he inherited the public service gene.

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